book
part of speech
noun (book, books); verb (book, books, booked, booking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A book is a set of pages with words or pictures, joined at one side inside a cover. tree →
2) A book is a long written work, a story or a text: a book about space. tree →
3) To book is to arrange a place or ticket ahead of time: book a table. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing on the table; a counted thing in problems («a shelf holds 10 books»); in class reading books, exercise books, textbooks; at the library you borrow and return books; in everyday life «book a doctor's appointment», «by the book» (by the rules)
examples
- I place one book on the table. tree →
- There are 3 bags. Each bag has 4 books. tree →
- Zoe had 8 books and gave 3 to Tim. tree →
- A shelf holds 10 books. How many books are on 5 shelves? tree →
- My favourite book is about dragons. tree →
- Write your name in your exercise book. tree →
- We borrowed three books from the library. tree →
- Mum booked tickets for the train. tree →
- Yes, that was a picture book! tree →
note
The thing being counted; no clue for the operation. Plural «books». Trap: «pages in a book» counts pages, not books.
In the corpora
- Much housework is invisible, like booking appointments and planning meals, so each grown-up may not see what the other does.
- Stars go on chat shows mainly to promote a new film, book or tour, and their funny stories are often practised beforehand.
- Bots can invent book titles and authors that sound real but do not exist.
- Chatbots can produce made-up cases, books or quotes that sound real; even experts must check them.
- History should be learned from good books, trusted sources and teachers, not from AI pictures.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «book» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.